"SwankyGirl" wrote in message
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Hi Mark,

Coming back to my original post,I noticed the the following symptoms
in my system.

I).Its spindle spins the CDs without any halts and playes them
perfectly if I use rlatively unused/new CDs from audio companies(ie
not CD R s).It is not able to play old/heavily used CDs though they
are from audio companies.

So I am not able to suspect the lense /dust problem.

II).If I use Imation CDRs burnt on my PC ,the spindle slowly starts to
spin with 3 halts as if the CD is too heavy to rotate.
Due to these "initial halts" the Cd info is not read and the system
gives no cd message.

Nevertheless it sometimes plays some of these Imation CDRs.
It doesnt play heavily used CDRs.

It seems there is a problem with spindle/reading heavily used
CDs/CDRs.

Any comments?


Still sounds like a cleaning issue or a deteriorated laser pickup to me.
VERY common set of symptoms.

Mark Z.